s which influence the patient in choosing his posture; and where a very closely similar amount of disease has been found in both lungs we have known the patient steadily maintain one position. The opaque, globular, striated, ragged sputum, containing no air, is justly regarded by the author as extremely significant of the disease; nevertheless he has in two instances seen this condition of expectoration independently of tuberculous affection ; and in three cases of phthisis, on the other hand, the sputa remained mucous, aerated, whitish or slightly yellowish or grayish, and semi-transparent to the end.
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